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Sunday, December 10, 2006

The Wondrous Net.

In case you did not know, the solution to all problems is to Name and Shame. The next sector of society to be subjected to this treatment will be Absent Parents. I just cannot wait to see the success of this scheme, whereby parents who refuse to support their children will have their names published on a website. I think you will all agree that this initiative will save the mass of deprived offspring roaming this land. We will surely see their promiscuous and dole-collecting sires/dams hanging their heads with embarrassment. It will also promote healthy peer pressure whereby the children whose parents DO pay for them can surf the Net to find out which of their classmates are not so lucky.Not only will this idea do wonders for children's esteem, but it is yet another ingenius alternative to sending people to prison, which must be avoided at all cost. Will the creativity of this government never end!No, really, will it?

8 Comments:

Don't forget the money that will be saved when they hire people to do the data entry - oh, and the whole infrastructure required to pull it all together and maintain it.

Oops... that costs money - no, wait - It'll come from the budget currently in place for front line officers! Those PC's aren't needed on the street anyway, right? And as far as officer safety goes, well, while you are WALKING your beat, you can use your radio if you need assistance. And don't worry because while the complainers are bustin' your chops, those data entry people will be hard at work fighting real crime and raising the esteems of children everywhere while the absentee parents live high on the hog on the money that was supposed to go to their kids, but that the taxpayer is providing instead. Oh, and don't forget to bash the single moms, too.

Thanks for the video Wil. By the way in case anyone is wondering, yes I have been working hard this week hence the sparse posting. I will be returning to my usual duties of sitting around at court on Wednesday.

Well, it's high time something was done about child-support dodgers, but I'm concerned about the fact that this can be done summarily and that nobody seems to be discussing means-testing the payments; I wouldn't want to see someone asked to pay out more money than they actually have, and if this new organisation is as useless as the Child Support Agency...Why not just make it a criminal offence, and have these 'parents' brought before a court of law? I bet our mutual acquaintance over on The Magistrate's Blog would relish the opportunity! And I'd like to see a maximum penalty of eighteen months in prison for this, though only for persistent offenders.

Oh, and if my dad happens to read this from New Zealand: Yes, it's you I've got in mind, you bastard!